Lets - English meaning

verb

Let (someone) have or do something.

Usage examples:

The dissident was allowed to leave the country

verb

To let someone do something or let something happen; permit

Usage examples:

You’re not allowed to talk during the exam., are you allowed in the building on weekends?, video li…

verb

To make it possible for someone to do something, or to not prevent something from happening

Usage examples:

Allow sb/sth to do sth the website allows consumers to compare the prices of all energy and telepho…

verb

Officially agree to or accept as satisfactory.

Usage examples:

The budget was approved by parliament

verb

To have a good opinion of someone or something

Usage examples:

I wish my mother approved of my friends., finally the court approved the sale of the property.

verb

To accept, allow, or officially agree to something

Usage examples:

The measure was approved by the senate committee on local and municipal affairs., the aluminum prod…

verb

Give official permission for or approval to (an undertaking or agent).

Usage examples:

The troops were authorized to use force

noun

A written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law.

Usage examples:

He has just signed a contract keeping him with the club

verb

Decrease in size, number, or range.

Usage examples:

Glass contracts as it cools

noun

A legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the agreement itself

Usage examples:

She already has a contract for her next book with a publisher., i have no other contractual obligat…

verb

Give (someone) the authority or power to do something.

Usage examples:

Members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies

verb

Give (someone) the authority or means to do something; make it possible for.

Usage examples:

The evidence would enable us to arrive at firm conclusions

verb

To make someone or something able to do something by providing whatever is necessary to achieve that aim

Usage examples:

Saving enough money now will enable you to retire comfortably.

verb

To make someone or something able to do something, or to make something possible

Usage examples:

Enable sb/sth to do sth this software will enable us to track orders more efficiently., recent tech…

verb

Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.

Usage examples:

Employees are normally entitled to redundancy pay

verb

To give someone the right to do or have something

Usage examples:

He’s entitled to his opinion even if you don’t agree with him., being over 65 entitles you to a dis…

verb

To give someone the right to do or have something

Usage examples:

Entitle sb to (do) sth the chief executive will face protest at the agm over his contract, which co…

verb

Agree to give or allow (something requested) to.

Usage examples:

They were granted a meeting

noun

A sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

A research grant

verb

To give, agree to give, or do something that another person has asked for, esp. as an official or formal act

Usage examples:

She was granted american citizenship., [ + (that) clause ] i grant you (that) it must have been ups…

verb

Obtain the temporary use of (something) for an agreed payment.

Usage examples:

We flew to san diego, hired a car, and headed for las vegas

noun

The action of hiring someone or something.

Usage examples:

Car hire is recommended

noun

A contract by which one party conveys land, property, services, etc. to another for a specified time, usually in return for a periodic payment.

Usage examples:

A six-month lease on a shop

verb

Grant (property) on lease; let.

Usage examples:

She leased the site to a local company

idiom

Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

phrasal verb

Utter a sound or cry.

Usage examples:

He let out a sigh of happiness

phrasal verb

Release someone from obligation or suspicion.

Usage examples:

They've started looking for motives—that lets me out

verb

Grant a licence to.

Usage examples:

A pub has to be licensed by the local justices

noun

A permit from an authority to own or use something, do a particular thing, or carry on a trade (especially in alcoholic drink).

Usage examples:

A gun licence

noun

An official document that gives you permission to own, do, or use something

Usage examples:

A fishing/export/driver’s license, poetic/artistic license, she’s licensed to teach elementary scho…

noun

A thing that is borrowed, especially a sum of money that is expected to be paid back with interest.

Usage examples:

Borrowers can take out a loan for £84,000

verb

Lend (a sum of money or item of property).

Usage examples:

The computer was loaned to us by the theatre

noun

A lane or narrow path, especially one leading to open ground.

Usage examples:

Whitehouse loan

verb

Officially allow (someone) to do something.

Usage examples:

The law permits councils to monitor any factory emitting smoke

noun

An official document giving someone authorization to do something.

Usage examples:

He is only in britain on a work permit

noun

A deep-bodied fish of the jack family, found in warm waters of the western atlantic and caribbean and caught for food and sport.

Usage examples:

He told me that there were snook and tarpon (as i already knew) and there were large bonefish and p…

noun

A tenant's regular payment to a landlord for the use of property or land.

Usage examples:

I cannot even afford to pay the rent on this flat

verb

Pay someone for the use of (something, typically property, land, or a car).

Usage examples:

They rented a house together in sussex

noun

A large tear in a piece of fabric.

Usage examples:

Eddie was dismayed by the rent in the roof of the tent

noun

A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Usage examples:

A range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse

verb

Give official permission or approval for (an action).

Usage examples:

The scheme was sanctioned by the court

noun

Approval or permission

Usage examples:

To be just, a government must have the sanction of the governed., trade/economic sanctions, the un …

noun

A lease of a property by a tenant to a subtenant; a sublet.

verb

Another term for sublet.

noun

An arrangement by which you allow someone to rent all or part of a building that you are renting from someone else

Usage examples:

There are concerns that downsizing companies might put too much office space up for sublease., the …

verb

Lease (a property) to a subtenant.

Usage examples:

I quit my job and sublet my apartment

noun

A lease of a property by a tenant to a subtenant.

Usage examples:

It is unbearably slow and cumbersome, and it's not connecting students with leases and sublets as w…

verb

To rent all or part of a rented apartment, house, or other building to someone else

Usage examples:

A summer sublet

noun

A document issued by a legal or government official authorizing the police or another body to make an arrest, search premises, or carry out some other action relating to the administration of justice.

Usage examples:

Magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest

verb

Justify or necessitate (a course of action).

Usage examples:

The employees feel that industrial action is warranted

verb

To make a particular action necessary or correct, or to be a reason to do something

Usage examples:

His injury was serious enough to warrant an operation., i can see circumstances in which these type…